FMEHGL-BNC - HiGloss Mercury Electro Scoop - Lefthanded SRP: £969.00

Model Overview

A little beauty, this left-handed Mercury is a traditional short-scale parlour model. With the neck joining the body at the 12th fret - rather than the 14th - the strings are held at a slightly lower tension than on regular models. Another implication of the 12th fret join is that the bridge is shifted further from the soundhole.

These features result in a guitar that is physically easier to play, sounds much bigger than you would imagine and is also simple to handle and transport.

Faith HiGloss series are designed to offer both visual and aural beauty. Using high grade Englemann Spruce for the top and highly-figured Rosewood for the back and sides, HiGloss models feature solid Flamed Maple binding and Macassan Ebony for the fingerboard, bridge, headplate and heelcap.

Tonally, this combination of wood is generally bright and 'zingy', delivering great clarity. Visualising this as a frequency curve, it would be shaped like a smile: high on the bass, dipping down through the middle and rising once again at the top end, lending itself to fingerstyle and solo pieces in particular.

Specification

Top Wood

Solid Engelmann Spruce

Back Wood

Solid Rosewood

Side Wood

Solid Rosewood

Binding

Solid Flamed Maple

Bracing Material

Quarter-Sawn Spruce

Bracing Pattern

Patrick James Eggle X-Brace Design

Rosette

5mm Abalone with Fibre Border

Neck

Mahogany

Neck Finish

Satin

Neck Joint

Patrick James Eggle Bolt-On Design

Fingerboard

Macassan Figured Ebony

Fingerboard Radius

16"

Fingerboard Inlays

Mother of Pearl 'F' at 12th Fret

Machine Head

Grover Rotomatic Gold

Trussrod

2 Way

Nut / Saddle

TUSQ (PQ-6116)/(PQ-9110)

Nut Width

43mm / String Spacing 55mm

Bridge

Macassan Figured Ebony

Bridge Pins

Macassan Figured Ebony with Abalone Dots

Finish Type

High Gloss Top, Back and Sides

Preamp / Pickup

Fishman INK3 Preamp with undersaddle pickup

Hardcase

Included

UserReviews

99.4%

of owners would recommend their Faith Guitar to a friend or family member **

** Based on 1111 online registrations.

"Lovely little guitar. Alk it needed was a lower action and a set of 11's for me."

Paul United Kingdom on 28/11/2017

"Construction, fit and finish is of a very high standard, characteristic of significantly more expensive instruments. Bright, lively yet full & rich acoustic tone; unexpected from a guitar this size. Nice amplified tone too. Very comfortable to play, smooth & silky. Outstanding value for money. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend."